The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
Susan Buck-Morss
- Author(s)
- Susan Buck-Morss
- Publication, year
- Cambridge Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 2000
- Scope
- 368 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.
- ISBN
- 0262024640
The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia. As the century closes, this dream is being left behind; the belief that industrial modernization can bring about the good society by overcoming material scarcity for all has been challenged by the disintegration of European socialism, capitalist restructuring, and ecological constraints. The larger social vision has given way to private dreams of material happiness and to political cynicism. Developing the notion of dreamworld as both a poetic description of a collective mental state and an analytical concept, Susan Buck-Morss attempts to come to terms with mass dreamworlds at the moment of their passing.
- Location
- Cabinet 19 - 3: Utopia ; De Ideale Stad
- Remarks
- Incl. notes, Bibliography and Index.
